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City of Abilene officials are asking people to report to Facebook a "bogus" page "impersonating the City of Abilene."

The city made the statement on its City of Abilene, Texas-City Hall Facebook page and City of Abilene Twitter page Sunday afternoon.

The bogus page, with the "IL" in Abilene capitalized, appeared to have gone live on Facebook Friday morning. At first it included the official city logo, but later versions have a triangle in the middle instead of a star.

The Facebook page says, "This page is a satire/spoof of the official Abilene Texas city page. They do nothing so we bring it to light."

Fake Abilene logo(Photo: .)

As of Monday morning, the fake city page had 455 followers.

One of the first posts on the page shows a mountain of gravel with the message about a solution for the city not having funds to repair streets. "Swing by and pick up some gravel and help us fill in these potholes! We will not charge you for this gravel, it is free!!! Make Abilene Beautiful!"

More recent posts parody the city's response to the page, saying "how dare someone expose our doing nothing! I mean this is private stuff here! We will find the person and prosecute them for breaking the freedom of speech act."

A post about an hour after the city sent out notices about the "fake" Facebook page stated that "the City of Abilene is once again attacking its own."